EP0932438A1 - Tamis vibrant ameliore - Google Patents

Tamis vibrant ameliore

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EP0932438A1
EP0932438A1 EP96935016A EP96935016A EP0932438A1 EP 0932438 A1 EP0932438 A1 EP 0932438A1 EP 96935016 A EP96935016 A EP 96935016A EP 96935016 A EP96935016 A EP 96935016A EP 0932438 A1 EP0932438 A1 EP 0932438A1
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Prior art keywords
shale shaker
screens
screen
shaker according
cloths
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Marshall Graham Larachmor Bailey
Arthur Robert Bailey
George Alexander Burnett
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Rig Technology Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B1/00—Sieving, screening, sifting, or sorting solid materials using networks, gratings, grids, or the like
    • B07B1/46—Constructional details of screens in general; Cleaning or heating of screens
    • B07B1/4609—Constructional details of screens in general; Cleaning or heating of screens constructional details of screening surfaces or meshes
    • B07B1/4672—Woven meshes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B1/00—Sieving, screening, sifting, or sorting solid materials using networks, gratings, grids, or the like
    • B07B1/42—Drive mechanisms, regulating or controlling devices, or balancing devices, specially adapted for screens
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B1/00—Sieving, screening, sifting, or sorting solid materials using networks, gratings, grids, or the like
    • B07B1/46—Constructional details of screens in general; Cleaning or heating of screens

Definitions

  • This invention relates to a shale shaker used to separate mixtures of solids and liquids into the separate components. Such mixtures result from drilling of a borehole or tunnel when a drilling fluid is used. Separation of the components permits re-use of the drilling fluid.
  • a shale shaker is a vibratory screening machine the function of which is to separate solids generated during the drilling of a borehole or tunnel from the drilling fluid used in the drilling process.
  • drilling fluid is circulated from the surface through a drilling assembly and then returned to the surface. Drilled cuttings generated from the rock type being drilled are carried to the surface in the drilling fluid.
  • a shale shaker is used at the surface to separate the drilled cuttings from the drilling fluid.
  • the drilling fluid is then circulated through the drilling assembly again.
  • drilled cuttings varies widely depending on the rock type being drilled and the type of drilling fluid in use. Where a drilling fluid is predominantly comprised of water, and the rock is soft clay, a requirement to separate large volumes of sticky clay solids from the drilling fluid results. These volumes of sticky clay solids are generally referred to as Gumbo. Gumbo is often experienced when drilling young unconsolidated formations such as those found in the UK North Sea and in the USA in the Gulf of Mexico. Gumbo solids cause severe problems in the operation of conventional shale shakers, arriving at the shakers as a large mass of sticky material which plugs the machine and coats the screen. This results in intensive manual intervention to allow the separation process to continue and often damages the screen installed on the shaker. Thus disruption to the drilling process occurs.
  • a shale shaker comprising two separate filter screens, wherein the screens are placed one above the other, to provide an upper and a lower screen, and drive means adapted to drive the screens separately in at least lateral vibration.
  • One or both screens may be caused to vibrate in more than one mode, for example vertical and/or horizontal and/or orbital mode.
  • the screens may be driven through different transmission means from a common drive means or by separate drives.
  • Each screen may be mounted within its own material containing means, which typically comprises a tray-like structure having walls, to contain mixtures of liquid and solid materials therein.
  • the upper screen may be tilted relative to the horizontal.
  • the screens may be of similar or different mesh. Thus both might be 100 mesh.
  • the mesh of the upper screen may be different from that of the lower.
  • the upper screen is of a coarser mesh than that of the lower screen.
  • Each of the two screens may be formed from a single cloth or from two or more cloths, stretched over a frame.
  • one cloth may be placed above the other, lower cloths preferably having a significantly coarser mesh than upper cloths.
  • the mesh tension may differ between the cloths.
  • the cloths may be formed from woven wire.
  • the wire may be of metal or plastics or plastics coated metal.
  • Variation of the throughput performance of the shaker is obtainable by adjusting the screen drives and/or modes of vibration of one or other or both of the screens.
  • a method of separating solids from liquids comprises:
  • the vibration of the screens is adjustable during the separation process so as to allow the separation of different solid-liquid combinations during filtering.
  • Figure 1 is a series of views of a prior art shale shaker, where Figure 1(a) is a front elevation.
  • Figure 1(b) a side elevation and Figure 1(c) a plan view of the shale shaker
  • Figure 2 is a series of views of a shale shaker embodying the present invention with an upper containing means for containing a fluid and solid mixture to be separated, where Figure 2(a) is a front elevation.
  • Figure 2(b) a side elevation and Figure 2(c) a plan view of the shale shaker;
  • Figure 3 is a series of detailed views of the upper containing means used in a shale shaker embodying the invention showing vibratory elements used to shake the upper containing means, where Figure 3(a) is a front elevation, Figure 3(b) a side elevation and Figure 3(c) a plan view of the upper containing means;
  • Figure 4 is a side elevation of the shale shaker as shown in Figure 2 with the upper containing means in a tilted position for processing of the mixtures;
  • Figure 5 is a schematic illustration of alteration of the vibratory motion of the upper containing means by adjustment of the relevant forces of individual vibrating elements.
  • a convention shale shaker is shown, the shale shaker being used for separating drilled cuttings from a drilling fluid before re-circulation of the drilling fluid for continued use in the drilling process.
  • Prior art shakers such as shown in Figure 1 typically comprise a feed tank 1, a skid assembly 2, a shaker basket 3, where the single shaker basket is mounted on springs 3c, a vibrator assembly 4 and a feed chute 5.
  • the basket 3 contains two screening decks 3a, 3b.
  • the screening decks 3a, 3b are normally made of woven wire mesh although other materials may be used.
  • a mixture of solids and fluid enters the feed tank 1 and passes via a feed chute 5, to the shaker basket 3. Fluid passes through the screen 3a, 3b and solids are retained on the screen mesh.
  • the shaker basket 3 is vibrated by the vibrator assembly 4 to produce a linear motion of the basket.
  • the vibratory action of the shaker basket 3 acts to assist the passage of fluid through the mesh and to transport the solids retained on the screen face to a point of discharge at the end of the screen. Solids are ideally discharged with the minimum volume of fluid attached.
  • the vibratory motion of the shaker basket is either orbital or linear. It is generally accepted that Gumbo solids are more easily processed using an orbital motion. Many other solids are more easily processed using linear motion.
  • a shale shaker embodying the invention is shown in Figure 2.
  • the front elevation of the shale shaker 10 is shown in Figure 2(a), a side elevation is shown in 2(b) with a plan view of the shale shaker shown in Figure 2(c).
  • the shale shaker 10 comprises a feed tank 12, a feed chute 14, a skid assembly 16 and two containing means, or shaker baskets, 18, 20, each basket having a sifting deck with mesh screen.
  • the baskets 18, 20 are independently mounted on individual sets of springs. One pair of springs 22, 24 on which the baskets 18, 20 are supported is shown. The springs used for supporting the baskets 18, 20 are in turn independently supported from the skid assembly 16.
  • Vibratory elements are attached to the containing means 18, 20.
  • Two vibratory elements 26, 28 vibrate the upper containing means 18.
  • a further vibratory element 30 vibrates the lower containing means 20.
  • a liquid and solid mixture produced from a drilling process is fed into the feed tank 12.
  • the mixture is fed via the feed chute 14 into the upper containing means 18.
  • the vibratory elements 26, 28 vibrate the upper containing means 18 with a linear motion or a orbital motion, or a motion which is a combination of these.
  • the upper containing means 18 vibrates, the fluid and solid mixture contained therein is vibrated against the sifting deck.
  • the liquid and some of the solid particles pass through the separating mesh in the sifting deck which forms the base of the upper containing means 18 and passes through to the lower containing means 20.
  • the upper containing means 18 comprises a rectangular base, or sifting deck, 32 with side walls 34, 34'.
  • the sifting deck 32 comprises a series of longitudinal and horizontal struts on which a mesh 36 is supported.
  • the vibratory elements 26, 28 are attached to the upper containing means 18 as shown in Figure 3(b).
  • the mesh screen 36 is typically a woven wire mesh and may be provided by one layer of mesh cloth or alternatively by two layers of mesh cloth.
  • the cloths may be of different grades of mesh and of differing tensions.
  • the partially separated solid and liquid mixture passes into the lower containing means 20. Further sifting of the partially separated solid and liquid mixture is then carried out in the lower containing means in a similar manner to that as described for the upper containing means 18 except that only one vibratory element 30 is used.
  • the upper containing means 18 is mounted so that the angle of operation to the horizontal is variable.
  • the upper containing means can be tilted between the horizontal to 10° in either an up sloped or down sloped direction.
  • Figure 4 shows the upper containing means 18 in such a tilted position, where adjustment into a down sloped position has occurred.
  • the same reference numerals have been used for those items already described.
  • the line of the horizontal is depicted by line 32 with the angle to the horizontal by line 34.
  • a variable adjusting means 36 is adjusted about a pivot means 38 to alter the inclination of the containing means 18.
  • the vibratory motion of the upper containing means 18 is controlled by varying the speed and or the direction of rotation, and or the force of vibrations of the two vibratory elements 26, 28 relative to one another. Further the vibratory elements may be movable in a lateral or vertical direction relative to the upper containing means 18 so that the position of the vibratory elements relative to one another and the screen can be varied.
  • Figure 5 shows a schematic diagram illustrating how the screen vibration movement may be altered by varying the clump weight settings of the vibratory elements 26, 28.
  • By increasing the front vibrational force from vibratory element 18 a flatter ellipse movement of the screen results.
  • the motion of the upper containing means 18 can be set for the processing of, for example. Gumbo and then adjusted further on in the sifting process to process other different solid - fluid combinations.
  • the shale shaker as described employs both linear and orbital motion for separation of solids from solid-fluid mixtures and is adjustable for separation of different combinations of solids and fluids.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un tamis vibrant comprenant deux éléments de tamisage séparés et superposés, avec des moyens permettant d'actionner séparément l'élément de tamisage supérieur et l'élément de tamisage inférieur, pour leur imprimer un mouvement vibratoire latéral. L'un des deux éléments de tamisage ou les deux peuvent vibrer dans plus d'un mode, par exemple vertical et/ou horizontal et/ou orbital. Les éléments de tamisage peuvent être similaires ou différents. Typiquement, l'élément de tamisage supérieur a des ouvertures plus grandes que celles de l'élément de tamisage inférieur.
EP96935016A 1996-10-15 1996-10-15 Tamis vibrant ameliore Withdrawn EP0932438A1 (fr)

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